Yes, absolutely. There is only one other place I would leave here to fly at, maybe; That's a big maybe. UPS is no longer one of them either.

They would like to pick-up 2-3 more 747s after these two coming. 5 yr plan to grow the 747 fleet and they would pick-up MD-11s if we have the business for them. We barely have enough pilots to fly what we have on property let alone the two coming, so things could move slowly with all of the transition going on because 10s going away and 74s coming on. This came straight from the World CEO in my 74 class last week, so take it with a grain of salt.

Yes, pretty close. My first year here I made 68k, second I made something like 76k, 87k and so on. I never work extra which you make a lot of money doing. I try to work the least amount possible, which is easy to do when we are properly staffed. We get paid for a lot of other things than just straight flight hours. IRO, continuos duty based on # of crew members, etc. 4.8 hrs a day whether you are flying or on a 6 day layover in Shanghai or Rota, Spain.

Expired already and currently in negotiations. GLAH, our parent holding company, wants to go public so they had to release earnings. This should be very helpful in negs. Like I said early, there are some things that need fixing in the contract and we are all expecting to improve compensation, or there could eventually be another strike, which nobody around here is scared to do.

PtP